Beastmaster of the Ages

Ying Huo only had a single stream of infernal order. When that order became a star, its body was transformed into a storm of flames, starting from its heart. Every single astron in the heart exploded with light thanks to the power of order, shining with the hidden energy of the Aeternal Infernal Phoenix’s bloodline. With the Bloodblaze Sword as a catalyst, more and more bloodline shackles were being undone, allowing the primal force of the Primordial Chaos Beast to burst forth within it.

The astrons near its heart turned into tiny middlekin stars of flame, but that wasn’t the end. Ying Huo’s astrons kept transforming in a way that other cosmic gods wouldn’t experience. The astrons morphed into the form of the unhatched eggs of Primordial Chaos Beasts, before hatching into Aeternal Infernal Phoenixes that shrouded their bodies with their two wings, freezing as if they had entered hibernation.

”The middlekin astrons took the form of the Aeternal Infernal Phoenix?!” Tianming was stunned. To think that something weirder than his Order-Relic astrons could actually exist. Ying Huo was a huge Aeternal Infernal Phoenix made up of even tinier ones.

Following the heart, the rest of Ying Huo’s astrons experienced the same process, turning into tiny phoenixes. When it was all done, it spread its wings and flew around Tianming, flashing with bright flames.

Tianming felt like he had returned to the dreamscape, seeing the world-swallowing Aeternal Infernal Phoenix before his eyes. Given his current level of power, the actual Ying Huo didn’t seem too far off from what it had appeared to be in the dreamscape.

”Oh no, Chicken Bro has become far too handsome,” Meow Meow said, stunned into wakefulness by the sight of the flying phoenix.

Fentian He had been able to illuminate the dark void of space with his body alone, and that was a trait that Ying Huo now shared. It had become a glowing body that rivaled stars in terms of luminosity. Its body had completely lost the properties of flesh, having morphed from a lifeform to a sentient universe. Perhaps that was what made Ying Huo appear cold and aloof, like a phoenix of its caliber should. Shuo Yue watched with some embarrassment. After all, the relative sizes of their bodies recently had been....

”This bird has become invincible!” Tianming exclaimed. Ying Huo flew near the top of the arc and lit up everything beneath it. It looked no less impressive than any cosmic crest beast.

Yet, its dashing handsomeness lasted but a single moment until it landed next to Shuo Yue, styled its hair-feathers, and put its wings on its hips and puffed its chest out with its head tilted upward. ”Yueyue, come and let me spoil you.”

”Go away!” Though Shuo Yue’s heart had been beating from excitement moments ago, all it wanted to do now was roll its eyes. The others broke out laughing at the sight. No matter what kind of being Ying Huo became, it would always retain its goofy character.

Meanwhile, the changes to Tianming’s own heart were significant, but nothing comparable to Ying Huo’s. The middlekin astrons were still shaped like the Order Relic, though they contained quite a bit of cosmic god cosmoforce. He now wielded a mix of normal and cosmic god cosmoforce.

”I wonder how a seventh-level quasi cosmic god like me with a cosmic god beast would be able to face off against a true cosmic god...,.” Tianming rose after making his breakthrough and looked at his chest, noticing the blazing heart. It was beating heavily to the point that it looked like a tuft of bright flame from the outside. ”I guess a huge part of that will depend on Ying Huo.”

He looked at the phoenix and saw that it hadn’t just experienced a fundamental transformation. Its feathers were shaped like dense swords with traces of infernal flame. It was as if hundreds of thousands of Monorigin Infernal Blazes were sealed into its sword-shaped feathers, making them utterly devastating weapons. ”How is it?”

”My Infernal Swordfeathers are back!” Ying Huo said, hugging its wings.

”What’s back?” Tianming asked.

”Get a good look!” Ying Huo snickered and suddenly used Infernal Blaze, splitting up into hundreds of thousands of copies, which Tianming had a hard time distinguishing. The next instant, it came charging toward Tianming, using its wings to open two stargates and using the maniverse-class worlds’ sword ki to attack him.

”The hell?!” Tianming recalled that Ying Huo had once used its wings as swords to practice sword arts. However, its combat style eventually changed as more and more beasts got added to the roster and grew stronger, giving it a smaller and smaller role to play.

”Are they all back?” Tianming asked.

”They’re back! With a cosmic god body, my Infernal Swordfeathers will just keep on getting stronger. My other abilities have also been enhanced. My destructive power is back, baby!” Ying Huo asserted confidently. It had the most potential out of all the beasts, being able to use abilities and battle arts. There had been a time when it trusted all its power to Tianming and launched Monorigin Infernal Blazes nonstop. With its abilities enhanced, that was certainly an option they could use once more. In terms of ability strength, it was usually only inferior to Meow Meow.

”Great!” Tianming could finally breathe a sigh of relief. They finally had some power to traverse the Ancient Flameyellow Ruins. ”Let’s hope the others become cosmic gods soon!”

Tianming continued to practice the Desolation Stargate Sword Formation with Ying Huo while Yin Chen and the Soulfiend continued their search. As Yin Chen still wasn’t willing to swim in the mud, its capabilities were greatly restricted.

Though Tianming had planned to make progress toward the eighth level, Qingyu seemed rather worried that no news of Feng had surfaced even after twenty years.

”Yin Chen, try to look for the others in here to see if we can get some information from them,” Tianming said. Then, Yin Chen reported that a few cosmic gods from the Eightpart Pantheons’ maniverse-class worlds were organizing some kind of assembly near the Ancestral Void Ark.